Putin's Puppet's Last Day

Trump is the most successful weapon the Russians ever developed.  A tiny investment of time and effort did more damage to the United States than 30 years of "cold war" with the Communist state (USSR) and its autocratic successor.  Perhaps the most profound success of the Putin's efforts was to turn the Republican Party from "cold warriors" to collaborationists.

...Over four polarising years Trump accomplished many of the KGB’s longstanding goals. These included estranging the US from its western allies and Nato; deepening domestic strife; and waging a Putin-style disinformation campaign against the 2020 result.

Manchurian candidate or not, Trump did more than any previous president to discredit US democracy and suck up to the Kremlin. Back in the 1980s the Soviet government invited Trump to Moscow. Seemingly it identified him early as a person without scruples, one perhaps capable given time and opportunity of bringing down the republic.

The invasion of the Capitol was the culmination of this cold war fantasy; a perfect series finale.

Will Trump get his Moscow hotel now?  He's earned it.